Here comes volume two of my Danish chronicles.

Way back in 1988, I wrote the first draft of “Meet the Danes,” a whimsical comedy based on an imaginary emigration to my wife’s homeland. Six years later, we did move to Denmark, and this book tells what really happened.

From the back cover:

In a leafy suburban town in Denmark, Mark and Karin buy a picturesque old house that Karin dreams of remodeling—a home for their son, Andreas, to grow up in. Then Karin falls seriously ill.

Weathering a brutal cycle of rekindled hopes and devastating relapses, they persevere with the renovations, bedeviled by a barrage of accidents and problems that the project throws their way. But finishing the job takes on a new and bittersweet significance as Karin exhausts conventional treatments and they are forced to seek alternatives abroad.

“It doesn’t matter, you’ll be okay” is a poignant story of a family undergoing an ordeal that tests the limits of their resilience and resourcefulness, about the deep human need to create something lasting amidst the precarious uncertainties of life and death—and about how, amidst the shared moments of a lifetime, we become part of one another.

The two books differ greatly in the story they tell and in mood, but in a strange way, they’re two sides of the same coin. I hope you will find it engaging and meaningful.

It’s available as an eBook on Amazon.com (and in the Kindle Unlimited program) and in paperback on all Amazon sites and other online bookshops, including Saxo.com in Denmark.